by efc8d-admin | Feb 9, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Capitalism, Indigenous Rights, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Socialism
Starting in the autumn of 2025, the US began attacking small civilian boats in or near Venezuelan waters, summarily executing over 126 people. January, 2026 began with it kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and bringing them to the US. This...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Politics and Culture, Race, The Arts
Today I am deeply honored to speak with novelist, essayist, and scholar Yuri Herrera about his new novel, Season of the Swamp, which is a deeply researched and dazzlingly imagined account of Benito Juarez’s time spent in exile in New Orleans. We talk about what that...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 26, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecological Justice, Palestine
Today I am delighted to speak with Andrew Ross about his new book, The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates. In this study, Ross revisits areas of the world that he has written about before—Palestine, the United Arab Emirates, Phoenix, Arizona, and...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 19, 2026 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Human Rights, Migration and Borders, Politics and Culture
Today I am happy to speak with Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky about their co-edited volume, Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, which was based on a Sawyer Seminar they convened at UCLA. The essays collected in this book are international in scope...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 15, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecology, Environment and Biosphere, Labor
I am delighted to talk with scholar, journalist, and activist Thea Riofrancos about her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. She takes us deep into the mining of lithium and the production of lithium batteries, which have been welcomed as a key...
